Good for Scola, not that I have any real reason to like the guy, he just seems likable, someone you'd want to root for in life. So good for him. I think the Rockets overspent, maybe not per year, but something tells me that in 3 years this contract may be hurting them.

that was Mombear's heart breaking because he won't be a Spur anytime soon lol

U r mean

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well, not necessarily. with this roster (let's say he replaces Bonner of course), Mason's contract off the books and what Bonner earning per year would have more or less equaled what he'd make? give also that Jefferson opting out would've helped.

the only difference is the Spurs would've been prompting Duncan to opt out after this season for a cheaper contract (and most likely some ownership after he retires). but i think we would've been able to keep everyone (i think of course being the main thing )

well, not necessarily. with this roster (let's say he replaces Bonner of course), Mason's contract off the books and what Bonner earning per year would have more or less equaled what he'd make? give also that Jefferson opting out would've helped.

the only difference is the Spurs would've been prompting Duncan to opt out after this season for a cheaper contract (and most likely some ownership after he retires). but i think we would've been able to keep everyone (i think of course being the main thing )

As much as you hate Bonner, he'd still probably be a Spur if Bonner was here. It would be interesting though, because I think the Spurs would still have needed to bring Scola over.

Blair being drafted would probably be most at risk if Scola were a Spur. Although, how do you pass up Blair in the 2nd round? Although it would setup the Spurs to have some nice tradable talent.

Splitter would probably still need to happen. RJ would definitely have to opt out, even if they had bird rights on Scola.

I'm curious if Manu gets the same deal in that case, because they have Scola around for possible leverage if that were the case....

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I think the casualty if we had Scola and then realised we had to overpay him this year would be Splitter.

I know he hasn't played yet but Splitter comes with the same hype but younger so already I am happier.

Kind of a stretch to predict this year's offseason based on a 3 year prodiction.

I think Scola would have been history, with the Spurs having NO intention of signing him for $9+M. $7M would probably have been the upper limit for matching. Then again, with Scola not actually getting a contract offer from ANYONE...

edit: Anyone else but the Rockets. Should have put ANYONE ELSE in the NBA...

Its not a stretch to say Scola's contract is up this year when we have our last chance to bring over Splitter, so it probably would have been one or the other.

Splitter was already drafted when we chose to send him to Rockets rather than pick up his contract, so now if the Spurs come into Scola's pay me the money year they either face the wrath of fans (people here were crying for him when he hadn't even played here imagine if he had put up the numbers he has in Houston)or pay him similar to what Rockets have.

So then if we have a euro centre on big money then its pretty obvious that the other euro centre would be the casualty.

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